[Citizen Zed]

Do they need union drivers?

[CSM]

How else can the revenuers get their revenue!

[BlopAndStop]

Would you trust the likes of Google with your family’s safety? Not in a million years.

[Sgt_Schultze]

Are Cali legislators expecting humans to jump into the “out of control” cars like Keanu in the movie Speed?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

If the controls are fly-by-wire, the steering wheel and pedals will be too.

Makes zero sense, but that's what you get when you draw your politicians from the sub-100 IQ pool.

[PapaBear3625]

If there is nobody in the car able to control it, then what human is legally liable for any accident or traffic violation by the car? That’s the real issue behind this.

[factoryrat]

It has nothing to do with unions. Virtually every self propelled vehicle from planes, trains, boats, automobiles, and even drones are required to have a human-machine interface, if only to take control when something goes wrong.

[W.]

Well, no s! How many gov’t subsidies/taxpayer dollars did it take to come to that conclusion? /Duh

[pepsi_junkie]

I don't think the cars are intended to be used as robots (i.e. no humans) but rather to drive humans as passengers. Theoretically this is safer as robotic cars would have the ability to maintain a constant difference between each other, all cars would know about instantaneous stops or other maneuvers of cars ahead in real time and could adjust at same time, etc.

That said, I always wondered why in Knight Rider they would build KITT as a two seat sports car which required someone to sit in the driver seat. I mean, what's the point of a car that drives itself if you have to sit behind the wheel all the time anyway? Why not make KITT and RV? Now I know, some bureaucrat demanded it.